Charge of Homicide Against a Native.
PUNISHING A WIFE'S UNFAITHFULNESS. [Pbb Paxes Association.] HAWERA, March 21. _ A Native, named Te Peheri Nehero, residing at Otakeho, has been arrested under circumstances which point to homicide. Recently he waa at Parihaka, and it is alleged that having found hia wife unfaithful, he thrashed her very severely, so severely that a species of paralysis set in.
She was removed to the Native Hospital j at Oeo, and thence to Pihama, , where she subsequently died. One j day last week, subsequent to her , death, a Native reported that the woman's i neck was broken by Te Peheri, aa a J punishment for her unfaithfulness, and , stated that he had put her neck across his knee and bent it until it broke. When the police commenced enquiry, the Natives became reticent, but sufficient information was 6btained to enable the police to arreßt the man. The Natives did not oppose the I arrest, but said it was a matter for Te Whiti to deal with, and talked of obstruct- J Ing the police; but after Rama, chief of the Otakeho Kainga, had been warned by Sergeant Anderson, of the consequences of interfering with the police, the arrest was made, and the prisoner lodged in the Manaia lock-up. The prisoner and his wife dame from Waikato.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5881, 21 March 1887, Page 3
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219Charge of Homicide Against a Native. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5881, 21 March 1887, Page 3
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